I imagine after the Bitkeeper fiasco, Linus and others are disinclined to become dependent on a proprietary service.
> Current state makes it very hard to mange/search/fork/open-issues etc
> especially for newcomers,
> please move the project to github so we can have nice disussions
> forks/prs etc goodness.
No. Never. Github is proprietary communications tool which requires
users to accept a terms of service and login. That gives power and
influence to a single entity (and a for-profit organization at that).
Contributing to unicorn is *socially* as easy as contributing to git or
the Linux kernel. There is no need to signup for anything, no need to
ever touch a bloated web browser.
The reason I contribute to Free Software is because I am against any
sort of lock-in or proprietary features. It absolutely sickens me to
encounter users who seem to be incapable of using git without a
proprietary communications tool.
I think his point about Tridgell's actions with BK reverse engineering were right, and El Reg was playing the OSS warrior card. It looks to me like Tridgell was trying to create a way to steal BK metadata - BK specifically required you to have a license to get that data.
OSS warriors annoy me as much as SJWs do, and seem just as narrow minded.
Why was that?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tr...
History has proven that necessity is a much better incentive, and produces better products than ideology.
I don't care much about the github website, because 99% of the time I use git from the command line.